WASHINGTON — Actor Jason Alexander is apologizing for comments he made about his former “Seinfeld” co-star, Heidi Swedberg.
Alexander recently told the “Howard Stern Show” that the reason co-creator Larry David killed off George’s fiancee, Susan, was that he couldn’t figure out how to work with her.
Now, Alexander is tweeting an apology.
Oh dear God, leave Heidi alone Read: http://t.co/14Q5akRj38
— jason alexander (@IJasonAlexander) June 4, 2015
The tweet comes with a link to a much longer apology, saying, “She was generous and gracious, and I am so mad at myself for retelling this story in any way that would diminish her.”
Alexander started the controversy by telling Stern: “Her instincts for doing a scene, where the comedy was, and mine were always misfiring. And she would do something, and I would go, ‘OK, I see what she’s going to do — I’m going to adjust to her.’ And I’d adjust, and then it would change.”
Alexander also claimed Julia Louis-Dreyfus struggled to work with Swedberg.
“They go, ‘You know what? It’s f — ing impossible. It’s impossible’,” Alexnader told Stern. “And Julia actually said, ‘Don’t you want to just kill her?’ And Larry went, ‘Ka-bang!'”
Soon after, Susan’s character memorably died by licking toxic wedding invitations because George was too cheap to buy decent envelopes.
Despite the comments, Alexander said he had nothing personally against Swedberg.
“OK, folks, I feel officially awful,” Alexander writes in his apology. “The impetus for telling this story was that Howard said, ‘Julia Louis-Dreyfus told me you all wanted to kill her.’ So I told the story to try and clarify that no one wanted to kill Heidi.”
Regardless, the two combined for some classic scenes, like George pretending to be a smoker, George pretending to cry and George and Susan swapping cheesy pet names.
Watch the comedic gold below:
